Officials at the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo say 530 people have been killed in the past two months and more than 1 million displaced people are clustered around various MONUSCO bases.
According to a VNA correspondent in Africa, on May 18, local media in the Democratic Republic of Congo cited a United Nations report saying that attacks by armed groups in the past two months in the country have claimed the lives of more than 500 civilians and displaced more than 1 million others.
The assessment concerns the Djugu and Mahagi territories of Ituri province in the east of the country, Marc Karna Soro, head of the Ituri office of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), was quoted by Radio Okapi of the Democratic Republic of Congo as saying.
Also on the issue, UN Radio reported that Mr. Soro, who had just returned from a mission in the southern Irumu region, Ituri province, reported on the general security situation in the province. Accordingly, Mr. Soro said that 530 people had been killed in the past 2 months and more than 1 million people had been displaced, concentrated around various MONUSCO bases.
Meanwhile in Nigeria, officials said on the same day that 85 people were killed and more than 3,000 people were evacuated in ongoing clashes between herders and farmers in the central part of the country.
Violence erupted on May 15. Initial reports indicate that 30 people were killed in Plateau state, a region that has faced ethnic and religious tensions for years.
Several villages in Plateau State's Mangu district continued to be engulfed in violence on May 18, forcing many residents to flee, according to local sources and witnesses.
The crisis is one of many security challenges facing Nigeria's newly elected President Bola Tinubu, who will officially take over as leader of Africa's most populous nation at the end of May.
Thousands of people have been displaced and hundreds of homes destroyed due to the violence, according to Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
"We have counted a total of 3,683 people displaced… More than 720 houses partially or completely destroyed," said Eugene Nyelong, NEMA's regional coordinator.
He added that emergency relief goods are being transported to those in need./.
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